Jose Arana Mr. Guthrie 12/11/2013 Intro- AJ 111 1. Over the years, the criminal sentence has served a number of different purposes, including retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation and are made for people to pay the crime they’ve committed and learn from it so that they wouldn’t do it again and for other to see that there are consequences for those who choose to not follow the laws 2. The six different types of punishment within the criminal justice system are capital punishment which is the actual process of executing someone. The second one is incarceration which is the most common punishment putting people away behind bars for a good time. House arrest is the third one which is almost the same thing as incarceration of prison difference is that your under incarceration in your own house and have different rules you need to follow and if you disobey them, then prison will be the second option, fourth option is probation this means that in some how you are free, but you still need to follow several rules by your “probation officers” depending if it’s an adult or juvenile order.
This has been developed in a variety of ways, in part of efforts to abolish parole, to adopt certain kinds of determinate sentencing guidelines and to put into practice other sentencing reforms. "www.thefreelibrary.com" (2011). I believe truth in sentencing is a deterrence of recidivism when using good time and work time credits. I believe every person deserves the opportunity to pay off their debt to society and prove that they will not be a repeat offender. Once a criminal has been convicted and has been sentenced to do their time, this is where they are able to show society and the criminal justice system that they have learned their lesson from their mistake.
All of these things are the goals of VORP. Like VORP, the original intention of shaming sentences is as an alternative to the criminal justice system, which trying to punishment offenders and warn other people at the same time, so that they let offenders announced their illegal activities in front of the public. However, I think shaming have more
Criminal Acts and Choices Sandra Garcia Criminal Justice CJA/204 September 14, 2011 Leroy Hendrix, MS Criminals are often categorized or labeled as the bad seeds of society or the rejects and failures. Those are the individuals that make the choice of disobeying the law and decide to live the life of a felon. Those criminal behaviors later on result to becoming habitual and progressive towards severe crimes being committed. However, for every action there is a reason to better understand the mind of a criminal certain theories have been introduced to the criminal justice system to gain knowledge in why people commit crime and what can be done to prevent it from occurring. In this paper choice theories will be identified and how they
Incapacitation is justified through the Deterrence Theory. The chemical castration of sex offenders is another form of incapacitation as well as the disqualification of driving privileges and house arrest. Individuals can be punished for “hypothetical” crimes or crimes they may commit in the future. The “Three Strikes” law is an example of all three theories, Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Specific Deterrence. Incapacitation is cost prohibitive due to the cost of running prisons and housing inmates for an extended period of time.
Deviance is the recognized violation of cultural norms. Crime is a type of deviance. Crime is the violation of a society’s formally enacted criminal law. Criminal deviance spans from minor traffic violations to sexual assault to murder. In the case of serious deviance, action may be brought by the criminal justice system – “a formal response by police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violations of the law.” The key elements of the U.S. criminal justice system include police, courts, and the punishment of convicted offenders.
Boot camps and house arrest are more common but not limited to juvenile cases, which may encompass monitoring devices such as GPS trackers, drug testing, and breathalyzers. Probation and intensive supervision probation are the most common types of sanction. Overcrowded prisons are a major issue in the United States and probation is one of the resolutions put in to action. Most of non-violent cases are more likely to be
The benefits to law enforcement are increased incentives for captured suspects, pending the prosecutions approval, and leverage for capturing more suspects or higher profile suspects to a case. The benefit to the prosecution and the judicial process are leverage similar to that of law enforcement, but the clutter of the system is one of the biggest benefits. If the court system had to prosecute every single case that comes through the system, including the guilty plea, it would be log jam that would be hard to catch up with. With plea bargaining as well, it gives the accused a chance and incentive to come clean and admit their wrongdoing so they can pay their debt to society and be on with their lives. In the end the judicial system saves money, both with the time of trials and appeals, as well as reduced charges or sentences that ultimately lead to less time the tax payer has to pay for incarceration.
However, changes have been made to correct the issue and results have been promising. The criminal justice system has implemented community corrections and began educating and providing rehabilitation services to inmates. This has reduce overcrowded prisons because of the alternative punishments to incarceration. It has also reduced recidivism rates by giving inmates the necessary skills to become productive law abiding
Society uses these two (2) common models to determine what a criminal act is. The consensus model is used by the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and it shows that the same values and beliefs are shared by the majority. The general norms and values come from society as a whole. Defining the Consensus Model it states that crime is anything that goes against the values and beliefs of society and is considered damaging to society. The Conflict Model is used to determine the content of criminal law.